Tobias von Dempter

Tobias von Dempter , called Dembter or Deventer (born  June 15, 1583 in Hildesheim , †  March 24, 1657 in Hameln ), was mayor of Hameln from 1629 to 1644 .

Life

Dempterhaus

The patrician family von Deventer goes back to the cartographer Jacob Roelofs , who named himself after the city of his work, from which he had to flee to Cologne in 1572 . Tobias, born in 1583, was the youngest son of the merchant Henrich von Deventer, who fled from Deventer to Hildesheim, and his wife Adelheid Töteling, who also came from Enschede , before the reign of terror of the then Spanish governor of the Netherlands, Duke of Alba . After the early death of his mother, his father sent him to teach the superintendent Reinfisch (Rijnfis), who worked in Hameln, in 1592 , and one year later he followed him to a private tutorHanover changed. When his father died shortly afterwards, he began schooling at the grammar school in Lemgo , which had just given up its Calvinist orientation , which had been promoted by the sovereign Count Simon , in favor of a strictly Lutheran school regulation decided by the Lemgo City Council. After finishing school, Tobias began studying philosophy and law at the University of Marburg in 1600 , which he continued in Wittenberg and Leipzig.

Tobias von Dempter married Anna Bock, the daughter of the Hamelin superintendent Magister Johannes Bock, in 1606 and took over his house at Am Markt 7, which he added a richly decorated half-timbered storey and attic storeys and a renaissance facade on the front. Just like his older brother Heinrich, who in 1603 had already found acceptance into the Hamelin merchants through his marriage to Katharina Amelung, Tobias devoted himself to trading .

Act

In 1612 Tobias von Dempter was accepted into the city council of Hameln, where he worked with his former school friend from Lemgo, Gerhard Reiche, and his former student colleague and later lawyer Justus Kiepe. During the Thirty Years' War in 1625, these men managed to negotiate a surrender treaty with General Tilly , which was supposed to regulate the orderly surrender of the city of Hameln, the measures taken by the occupation, the guarantee of religious freedom and the continuance of the sovereign loyalty . A little later, the council of the city of Hameln had to defend the occupying power by uncovering a conspiracy from its own ranks, but was able to save the city from complete ruin.

In 1629 Tobias von Dempter became mayor of the city of Hameln alongside Gerhard Reiche. He was particularly committed to the expansion of the major thoroughfares, for which he used funds from a foundation of the former canon Arnold von Bavensen, in whose honor he had a memorial stone placed in 1656 on which he is described as the executor. During his 15-year term in office, he built a new school and sponsored the St. Nikolai market church , to which he and his wife donated a new organ . He also worked in commissions for Duke Georg von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , who liberated Hameln from imperial occupation in 1633.

Tobias von Dempter died on March 24, 1657 after a cold and was buried on April 9, 1657 in the Marktkirche Sankt Nikolai. A street in Hameln is named after him.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christine Wulf: Deutsche Insschriften (DI) 28: Hameln, Am Markt 7. 1989, accessed on January 24, 2019 . 
2. ^ Annemarie Ostermeyer, "Tobias von Dempter let me be built" in: Museumsverein Hameln, Yearbook 1970 , pp. 21–24
3. ↑ Annemarie Ostermeyer, Four Generations Heinrich von Dempter , in: Deister and Weser newspaper of October 13, 1973
4. ↑ Stadtarchiv Hameln, Tilly-Briefe, Best. 2607, H. 11 (copy of the contract of August 12, 1625); excerpts from Heinrich Spanuth (ed.), History of the City of Hameln , Hameln 1983, Volume 2, pp. 30f.
5. ↑ Spanuth, p. 40ff.
6. ^ Henrich Sannemann: Sermon for Tobias Dembter. Göttingen City and University Library, 1657, accessed on January 24, 2019 .